Sean -- Thanks for the lengthy and thoughtful response. What I've found most successful so far is hunting through the lsof | grep http and finding ways to eliminate unnecessary files. And I'm also exploring an expansion of my production resources to include a second tier machine that houses the database. If either of these ideas are stupid -- or there's something more efficient -- I'd really appreciate the pointers. Thank you. Ben. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-users%40httpd--What-is-the-best-way-to-handle-%22too-many-open-files%22-errors--tp23629492p23644950.html Sent from the Apache HTTP Server - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx